Shadee Elmasry – What Did the Prophet Muhammed Look Like
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Rabi'ul Awwal, a time in which Salah
on the Messenger ﷺ should really be what
keeps us busy.
It doesn't mean you're not going to do
other things, remember.
Very important battles happen during Ramadan, let alone
any other month.
The Salah on the Messenger ﷺ is a
shifa' and I remember somebody mocking that one
time.
They say like, we treat Salawat as if
it's a magic potion.
Well, I would say magic potion wouldn't be
enough of an analogy.
They say they treat Salawat on the Prophet
ﷺ as if it's a magic potion.
And I'm like, huh?
No, this is far superior to a magic
potion.
But here we go.
The Messenger ﷺ was bestowed with unmatched beauty
and splendor.
It was described that the Sahaba would visit
the Messenger ﷺ and even non-Muslims would
come to Medina or into Mecca and they
would get caught just staring at the Prophet's
face ﷺ.
And the proportions were perfect.
There is a type of what you could
say is an objective measure to beauty.
It does exist.
It does exist.
There are proportions that indicate perfection.
Now that doesn't mean if a person doesn't
have those proportions that they're not beautiful.
No, there could be beauty in a certain
way.
But some people who have different proportions as
Allah has created things, they may be attractive
to like half the population but not everybody.
I believe there is a market for everybody
when it comes to beauty.
Someone will find you attractive in the world.
The question is a few or a lot.
And when it comes to Sayyid al-Qurnayn
ﷺ, everybody found him attractive.
That's where the balance is.
Some people could have slender faces and some
people have wide faces.
Some people could have wide bodies and slender
bodies.
All sorts of different proportions.
I don't disagree with people who say there
is a beauty in everything.
There is.
But the question is if this Messenger ﷺ
is meant for the whole world, then his
beauty must be for the whole world.
So there is that.
He is in the middle of everything.
They say his skin was neither black nor
was it white.
It was, they say, a honey wheat with
a little click to the lighter side.
And how do they say that?
Because they described you as light if you
turned reddish in the sun.
And they described you as dark if you
turned darker in the sun.
And that's really how they used to define
things.
So the Prophet ﷺ, if you look at
his hair, it was neither one way or
the other either.
Neither was it very curly, neither was it
totally straight.
Now do people love curly hair?
Of course they do.
It's extremely attractive to have curly hair.
It is extremely attractive to have straight hair.
But Allah is sending a Messenger that would
appeal to everybody, not just to 50%
of the people.
And hence his hair was wavy.
So it has some straight, what does wavy
mean?
Part of it is straight and part of
it curls.
That's the definition of wavy.
We find that his size and his build
was what the majority of people would love
on this earth when they look at a
man.
So when it comes to height he was
in the middle of tall and short, but
with a little bit on the tall side.
And his width of his shoulders, they were
broad.
That's what you expect from a man.
So there are certain things you don't want,
the middle.
He had broad shoulders, that's what you expect.
That's what's beautiful in a man.
His hands were big.
When you have a leader who's going to
fight for you, you want him to have
big strong hands.
It's not so thin that you wonder, oh
no, he's too skinny.
That doesn't mean someone thin can't lead.
That doesn't mean someone small has no chance
in life.
No, it just means what is the majority
honor and respect.
And that's how the Prophet was created.
Sayyidina Hassan bin Thabit, on seeing the beauty
of the Prophet, peace be upon him, famously
said, as a kafir, who just minutes ago,
Hassan bin Thabit, as a non-believing, as
if he's a marketer, like a marketing agent,
was hired by Quraish to lampoon the Prophet.
And that's almost like hiring a marketing firm
to go and say bad things about your
opponent in an election or something like that.
You're literally hiring a company to go dig
up dirt and smear it all over.
So these poets were almost like people with
50 million YouTube subscribers and 100 million Twitter
followers.
So they're extremely powerful voices in Mecca.
When Hassan bin Thabit stands up and he's
going to say, on Monday night I'm going
to recite a new qasida, a new poem,
everyone shows up.
If you didn't show up, you asked, hey,
who attended?
What did he say?
That's how these qasidas worked.
And these were marketing people at that time.
They offered Hassan bin Thabit a very, very
handsome purse, a very nice amount of money.
Very good amount of money.
What do you want from this?
Lampoon Muhammad.
Go and say bad things about the Prophet
ﷺ.
All right, so now what?
He's on his way to Lampoon.
He's thinking.
He's got time.
Not the end of the world.
He's got time.
On the way while he's thinking, he's got
his head down.
Suddenly someone's coming the other way.
He looks up and it's the Prophet ﷺ.
When a person is lost in thought, something
happens, your actual true reaction comes out.
So he says, وَأَحْسَنُ مِنكَ لَمْ تَرَ قَطُّ
عَيْنِي وَأَجْمَلُ مِنكَ لَمْ تَلِدِ النِّسَاءُ خُلِقْتَ مُبَرَّأً
مِّن كُلِّ عَيْبٍ كَأَنَّكَ قَدْ خُلِقْتَ كَمَا تَشَاءُ
More beautiful than you my eye has never
seen.
This is a man saying to another man.
And he's an artist.
Remember, they have an eye for beauty.
They care about beauty.
And more beautiful than you, no woman has
ever given birth to.
You've been created free from all blemishes and
imperfections as though you were created just as
you desired.
That is the famous Sahabi Hassan bin Thabit.
Immediately he entered Islam.
Hassan bin Thabit.
And that line of two lines of poetry
went all around.
That's how effective and impactful appearance is.
Appearances are important.
And that's why one of the attributes of
prophets is that they're always attractive.
They're always handsome.
That's the attribute of prophets.
Every prophet had a beautiful face, a perfect
body, the highest height of intelligence, and a
beautiful voice to listen to.
There was never a prophet that had a
voice that people would not want to hear.
Every prophet was born of the highest stock
of their society.
فَجَوْهَرُ الْحُسْنِ فِيهِ غَيْرُ مُنْ قَسِمِ For in
him is the undivided essence of all beauty.
جَوْهَرُ الْحُسْنِ Like the root of beauty.
It's not to be divided with anybody.